Reinforcement learning is a paradigm under which an agent seeks to improve its policy by making learning updates based on the experiences it gathers through interaction with the en...
We design and implement FD-Buffer, a buffer manager for database systems running on flash-based disks. Unlike magnetic disks, flash media has an inherent read-write asymmetry: w...
Sai Tung On, Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Qion...
It is common that Internet service hosting centres use several logical pools to assign server resources to different applications, and that they try to achieve the highest total r...
James Wen Jun Xue, Adam P. Chester, Ligang He, Ste...
To balance performance goals and allow administrators to declaratively specify high-level performance goals, we apply complete search algorithms to design on-line job scheduling p...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...